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Letter from Joseph A. Fardell, Pittsburgh Landing, to his parents, April 2, 1862

Missouri History MuseumPitts Burg Landen[Pittsburg Landing]
Tennsee[Tennessee] Wednsday
April the 2th 1862
Dear Mother and Father
it is With much plesher that I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well at presant hopeing those few lines will find you injoying the saim blesing you must excuse me for not Writeing to you before now for I have been bissy the time cence I left home or I eould have rote befor this I am now on the steamor Fanny Bullett runing on hear as [word unclear] for Which I get 15 Dollars per month that is better than to stay at home I think I am Well pleased With my Burth at presant I have no noes of importance to Write to you this time We have a bout one hundred thousand men hear at this point

Joseph A. Fardell was mustered into Company C, 131st Illinois Infantry, on November 13, 1862, in Metropolis, Ill. In October 1863, he was pronounced medically unfit for field service and spent the remainder of the war with the Invalid Corps, later known a

Joseph A. Fardell was mustered into Company C, 131st Illinois Infantry, on November 13, 1862, in Metropolis, Ill. In October 1863, he was pronounced medically unfit for field service and spent the remainder of the war with the Invalid Corps, later known a

Missouri History MuseumPitts Burg Landen[Pittsburg Landing]
Tennsee[Tennessee] Wednsday
April the 2th 1862
Dear Mother and Father
it is With much plesher that I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well at presant hopeing those few lines will find you injoying the saim blesing you must excuse me for not Writeing to you before now for I have been bissy the time cence I left home or I eould have rote befor this I am now on the steamor Fanny Bullett runing on hear as [word unclear] for Which I get 15 Dollars per month that is better than to stay at home I think I am Well pleased With my Burth at presant I have no noes of importance to Write to you this time We have a bout one hundred thousand men hear at this point